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Neva Entrikin was the first public official to speak out about misuse of KPERS' funds.
Neva Entrikin was appointed to the KPERS Board of Trustees in May 1987. The Governor asked the new board in 1987 to investigate questionable investments made by the 1986 Board and Chairman Mike Russell who was John Carlin's hand-picked Chair.
Neva Entrikin went right to work to protect the money of Kansas taxpayers and KPERS' members:
- 7/26/87 (K.C. Star) – "I don't believe that," said new board member, Neva Entrikin, when told by Reimer & Koger that Tallgrass Prairies Technology would become a money-maker.
- 9/6/87 (K.C. Star) – “…Neva Entrikin questioned why the Board was even talking about investments” when she halted the move to invest in junk bonds.
- 2/27/89 (K.C. Star) - "We don't need such risky enterprises... it is public money and there certainly is no need to put members' money at risk" Neva said when questioned about direct placement investments.
- 6/21/90 (K.C. Star) - "... To assure Kansas taxpayers that the board intends to follow the strictest standards of good public service" Neva said when she successfully fought for a Trustee Code of Ethics.
- 1991-1992 - As a trustee, Neva voted to approve lawsuits leading to the recovery of the first $2 million lost because of 1986 decisions.
- 5/87-5/92 – KPERS assets grew from $2.9 to $4.5 billion during Neva's service on the Board of Trustees.
- 10/11/92 (Journal-World) - Senator Wint Winter, Jr., Chair of the KPERS Joint Committee, "Neva served with distinction on the KPERS Board. She was a strong advocate for KPERS members. She was the first to question risky investments."
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U.N. official resigns, says aid to Somalia inadequate
The Associated Press
MOGADISHU, Somalia — The outspoken diplomat who coordinated U.N. operations in starving Somalia quit tearfully yesterday because of what he called bitter experiences with the U.N. bureaucracy.
Mohamed Sahnoun's departure was seen by many as a setback in the international effort to alleviate suffering in Somalia, where drought and clan warfare threaten up to 2 million lives.
But, he said, "I did it with no intention but to really make people aware of the situation and to fulfill their duties."
At a news conference announcing his resignation, Sahnoun acknowledged he might have stepped on some toes when he criticized U.N. response to the Somali catastrophe as slow and inadequate.
"He has left a huge void," said President Philin Johnston of CARE-USA.
A number of private aid agencies also have criticized the U.N. effort as too slow, timid and bureaucratic.
increase the flow of food and other aid.
Sahoun's resignation comes at a time of increased clan fighting, which has imperiled the United Nations' new, 100-day crash program to
As Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's special envoy to Somalia, Sahnoun oversaw the relief efforts and peace talks. He recently was negotiating with warlords over deploying 3,500 U.N. peacekeepers to protect aid shipments.
CARE's Johnston, recently named operations manager for the program, said Sahouna's departure could hurt wartrials and contests with warlords fall through.
U. N. sources said Sahnoun felt the time had come to quit bargaining with the warlords and deploy the troops, but that sentiment was not shared at U.N. headquarters. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity.
criticizing the United Nations in news interviews. On Tuesday, Sahounn said he was reconsidering in light of appeals by Somali, diplomats and private agencies that he finish the job he began in April.
By Sahnoun's estimate, 300,000 Somalis already have died from war and hunger. The United Nations says 250,000 more could perish by Christmas unless aid reaches them.
Until his successor is named, the Somalia operation will be headed by Brig. Gen. Imitzah Shaheen, the commander of a Pakistani peacekeeping battalion in Mogadishu, Sahnoun said.
But yesterday he said that he had received no response from the secretary-general and that he was leaving.
Mark Stirling, head of the U.N. Children's Fund in Somalia, was among many U.N. and private aid agency employees who saw Sahnow off at the airport. He compared the scene to a funeral.
"With Ambassador Sahnun, there was confidence in the political leadership of the United Nations," Stirling said.
"He was unorthodox, but he got the system to work."
Bomb overshadows peace talks
The Associated Press
TYRE, Lebanon — Muslim guerrillas set off a bomb in south Lebanon yesterday, wounding four Israeli-backed members of the militia, security sources said. The action marked a renewal of violence that has overshadowed Arab-Israeli peace talks.
The sources said that wounded members of the militia belonged to the Israeli-allied south Lebanon Army, or SLA, and that the roadside bomb was detonated in Aramta near Jezine, the largest Christian town in south Lebanon.
The SLA, whose 3,000 members of the militia help patrol Israel's self-styled security zone in south Lebanon, retaliated by firing six howitzer shells on suspected hideouts of the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah west of Aramta, said the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Hezbollah and Iran have vowed to ruin the Arab-Israeli peace process launched a year ago under the auspices of the United States and Russia. Hezbollah, which called all its 3,500 guerrillas to arms this week, is also bent on removing Israel from the 440-square-mile zone.
Iranian-backed Hezbollah, or Party of God, claimed on its al-Nour radio station that its guerrillas detonated the bomb on an Israeli army patrol passed by. It gave no further details.
In Washington, Uri Librani, Israel's chief negotiator with Lebanon at the seventh round of Middle East peace talks, has said Israeli reinforcements along its northern border and in the security zone would stay.
In Jerusalem, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin vowed yesterday not to let the upurse in violence along the Israel-Lebanon border disrupt the peace talks.
He blamed Hezbollah and its fundamentalist allies for attacks that have taken the lives of five Israeli soldiers and an immigrant boy since Sunday.
By Lebanese police and Israeli counts, 13 people have since been killed and 39 wounded in Lebanon and Israel in attacks and counterattacks.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the roadside bomb that killed the five soldiers and wounded five others on Sunday.
On Monday and Tuesday, Israel mounted six air raids, a sea attack and massive artillery barrages against Hezbollah and Palestinian guerrilla targets throughout Lebanon to avenge the bombing and a Katyusha rocket attack in northern Israel that killed the boy.
Hezbollah's barrages into the security zone also killed a Lebanese school teacher and his 18-month-old son Monday in a Christian village, Rmeish.
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